The actor has been watching a lot of Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff films like MASHAAL and RAM LAKHAN to get under the skin of his character and to understand the old-school mannerisms and styling of characters that belong to that era.

Says Imran Khan, ''ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAAI AGAIN is a period film. So the characters had to fit in correctly...I watched a lot of films from the 80's, including the ones with Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff in them to understand how things were back then.''